"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Mount Bures When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Mount Bures
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Mount Bures Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Mount Bures
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Mount Bures "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Mount Bures
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Mount Bures We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Mount Bures
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Think off-center." (George Carlin) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Mount Bures "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Mount Bures
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Mount Bures There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Mount Bures
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Mount Bures Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Mount Bures
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Mount Bures A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Mount Bures
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Mount Bures "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Mount Bures
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Mount Bures Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Mount Bures
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Mount Bures Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Mount Bures
